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A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics

formalism

// n. Any fully explicit notational device or set of such devices. The term can be applied, for example, to the Kleene star, to the X-bar system or to the entire framework of GPSG.

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Formalism from A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. ISBN: 0-203-39336-8. Published: 2003–08–28. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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